Help Cécile Acosta Reynaud’s Family Get Justice for Her Murder JULY 28, 2012 – Rita Banerji

This is a post requesting assistance from anyone who can provide any information or help with getting justice for the murder of a young Mexcian woman Cécile Acosta Reynaud in India. Cecile is believed to have been brutally murdered and then burnt by her boyfriend from Mexico, Martin Manrique Mansour who is also living in India. Cécile was studying dance, at a school in Kerala, and Mansour was doing his post-doctoral studies at Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, in Tamil Nadu. It was while visiting him to see her daughter, that Cécile was murdered.

Cécile’s family sent us a letter requesting assistance from anyone in India who can help, and we we have posted the letter below. It explains her case fully.

If anyone has any information, or if you are based in Tamil Nadu where this incident occurred, and think you can either assist or give helpful advice to the Acosta family on what they can do to get justice for Cecile’s murder and get the custody of her 6-year-old daughter, then you can send us an email at50millionmissing@gmail.com with the header “Help for Cecile”

Here’s the letter we received on behalf of the Acosta Reynaud-Pulido family

In the case of Cécile Denise Acosta Reynaud’s femicide, allegedly murdered by Martin Manrique Mansour, on 9 April, 2012 in Kalasalingam, in Tamil Nadu, India, the defendant confessed to committing said crime after a custody discussion for their six year old child Adela Berenice Manrique Acosta.

Due to this crime, he was detained and imprisoned at Chennai’s penitentiary, where he was incarcerated until July 2012.

During this period of time, from April up to date, it has been known that Cecile Denise’s body was fiercely treated by the murderer. It showed an incision in the aorta, skull fracture, trachea fracture, a deep wound in one leg and several incisions in her chess. It is known it was wrapped in plastic, then tied with strings or ropes and hide it in his house, while his daughter was there. Afterwards, he put the body in a suitcase, and move it in the trunk of his car outside Madurai and then set it on fire. It has been said, that on the route to the place where he set the body on fire, the child was in the same car.

Cécile Denise Acosta Reynaud is dead, this is a fact; but until now, only part of her remains have been given to her family, a portion of the remains that were exhumed from a mass grave (another part stayed in India for the post-mortem examinations); they do not have a Death Certificate, nor the results of the autopsy. On 24 April, the body’s identity was ratified, it was confirmed that they were Cécile Denise Acosta Reynaud’s by superposition of the skull and with a DNA test, which leave no doubt of the identity of the remains, nonetheless, the family does not have said results either.

All of the above, while waiting for the collection enough proof and evidence, for what is known, of the transgression of at least four crimes, in order to begin the trial and entail the accused to the corresponding sentence.

However, and in spite of all this, Martín Manrique Mansour has been freed under bail. The causes for this decision are unknown. It is ignored, why is he free if he is the accused party of an ongoing investigation.

In an article Muerte en la India (Death in India), recently published in the Gatopardo magazine, it is stated: “…Within the following weeks, the police will present the formal murder charges. Martín must be judged in India because that is the country where he allegedly committed the crime….” But it also states: “…Martín’s legal representative, P. Kumaresan, was a general district attorney for Tamil Nadu, and he trusts he will bail him out of prison as soon as possible… —We will focus on dismantling the evidence: we are going to take advantage of the police’s mistakes…”. Everything indicates that they are succeeding. Are they making a display of the local influence?
It is worth to alert the authorities in Madurai City, so that they are aware that within their city and among their people, is someone with Martin Manrique Mansour’s characteristics, main suspect in a heinous murder, planned with inhuman viciousness.